Health

health, in human beings, the extent of an individual’s continuing physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with his environment.

This definition, just one of many that are possible, has its drawbacks. The rather fragile individual who stays “well” within the ordinary environment of his or her existence may succumb to a heart attack from heavy shovelling after a snowstorm; or a sea-level dweller may move to a new home in the mountains, where the atmosphere has a lower content of oxygen, and suffer from shortness of breath and anemia until his red blood cell count adjusts itself to the ... (100 of 885 words)